rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/new-york-state-legislators-we-demand-equal-pay?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-new-york-state-legislators-we-demand-equal-pay' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> A Better Balance https://actionnetwork.org/users/a-better-balance/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/084/176/normal/albany-2830457_640.jpg In New York State, women working full-time still make only 89 cents for every dollar a man earns. Mothers make just 75 cents to the dollar. The gap for women of color is even wider: Black women in New York earn just 66 cents for every dollar a white man earns, and Latina women earn an astonishing 56 percent of what white men in New York earn. There are two proposed pieces of legislation that would go especially far towards achieving pay equity. A5308 / S3692A would ban employers from asking for salary history—a practice that results in discrimination towards mothers and women of color especially, who have historically earned less. And A8093 / S5248 would mandate equal pay not just for equal work, but for substantially similar work, for all protected classes—including sex, race, and ethnicity. Tell your New York State Legislators that the wage gap for women in New York is unacceptable and we demand change! https://actionnetwork.org/letters/new-york-state-legislators-we-demand-equal-pay